tcianflo@nugipsy.UUCP (Tom Cianflone) (06/08/88)
I need an easy way to determine the Bounding Box parameters for
PostScript files created by MacDraw. Right now we are calculating
this stuff by hand -- very time consuming and no fun.
Are there any public domain programs that can do this
automatically? Or perhaps any easier way than doing it long-hand?
I tried sourcing a pict-format MacDraw file into MacDraft to see
if MacDraft would give BB parameters, but it doesn't. Are there
any Mac programs that can read pict format that also will spit
out a PostScript description with BB parameters? How about
MacDraw II? I remember reading something about this. Does it
exist and does it supply BB parameters?
Please send email as it is difficult to keep up with this group.
Any help greatly appreciated.
Thanks as usual...
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=> NOTE: Disregard header info. Email to above paths only. <=gelphman@adobe.COM (David Gelphman) (06/10/88)
The Adobe Illustrator(tm) 88 package includes an application called DrawOver(tm). This program converts PICT format files into Adobe Illustrator format. I believe that any bitmaps which are part of the PICT file are ignored but I haven't tried that myself. The resulting Illustrator file is a pure PostScript(R) language file which can be sent to a PostScript printer. There is one caveat: the coordinate system used for an Illustrator 1.1 document (by default) is the top left corner of the document (I think this was changed in the latest release but you can check it when you select Rulers). Move the origin of coordinates to the lower left corner of the page so that it matches the default coordinate system in the PostScript language. Again, I think that the new version of Illustrator uses the lower left corner by default so this may not be necessary. One other point: Illustrator documents do not have a 'showpage' imbedded within them. You need to add this to your file if you send it directly to the printer with something like SendPS instead of using the Print command in Illustrator. Hope this is useful, David Gelphman Adobe Systems, Inc.